Ah, the Memories Of a Political Life From Liberal Party stalwart to deputy mayor in a Republican City Hall to Democratic mayoral hopeful. Not the typical political route in New York, but Fran Reiter traveled it, and in a single decade.

Former Deputy Mayor Fran Reiter is stepping down as executive director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater, less than a year after she was hired to help bring financial order to an organization long identified with its charismatic creative leader,...

October 5, 2001, Friday

To the Editor: A letter from Spence Halperin [''How Free Is Free?'' Aug. 19] takes issue with the fact that some tickets to Shakespeare in the Park go to contributors, members and corporate sponsors. It goes on to suggest, ''Let's bring free...

September 2, 2001, Sunday

Fran Reiter, a former deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration, will become executive director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater today in a move to strengthen the theater's business operations, the Public's chairman said yesterday. The...

November 14, 2000, Tuesday

Fran Reiter, a former senior adviser and campaign manager for Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani who last year joined a crowded field of Democrats in the 2001 mayoral race, said yesterday that she was withdrawing because she had failed to attract enough...

February 25, 2000, Friday

The Arkansas flag was no longer fluttering over City Hall yesterday, but Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani apparently wanted to bask a little longer in the controversy its presence created this week. The Republican Mayor spent several minutes of his...

An article yesterday about early fund-raising for the next New York mayoral election misstated the amount raised so far by a potential candidate, Fran Reiter. She has reported the total as $101,555; $67,280 is the amount that Ms. Reiter says is...

July 17, 1999, Saturday

Fran Reiter, a former leader of the state Liberal Party and longtime political adviser to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, has decided to join the Democratic Party in preparation for a possible bid for mayor of New York in 2001, Ms. Reiter's associates...

IN 1928, Fran Reiter's grandfather finished construction of the first luxury high-rise apartment building on the Lower East Side, a building that became a center for the Jewish intelligentsia and theatrical community that thrived in the neighborhood....

August 9, 1998, Sunday

To the Editor: In ''Talking Business With: Fran Reiter'' (news article, April 16), Ms. Reiter, the former Deputy Mayor and now president and chief executive of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, states, ''The single biggest challenge...